May 2022
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May 2022 Issue....
Formula 2 Series Withdraws from the Oldtimer
Roger Bevan, Chairman of the HSCC, and of its Historic Formula 2 Championship, has recently had to write to his competitors to inform them that the series is withdrawing from its scheduled race at the Oldtimer-Grand-Prix due to low entries. This is not due to a lack of enthusiasm from…
Devenport and Baker Come out Tops at Laguna Seca
The First Orion Monterey Motorsport Celebration is a new race event, organised and promoted by GT Celebration. Along with the GTC grids, the Porsche Sprint Challenge North America West and Ultimate Track Days participants, the event included the Masters USA Formula Atlantic Plus and Masters Endurance Legends USA grids in…
Equipe Classic Racing Brands Hatch
Spanner-man Causer’s Debut Double O’C Racing mechanic Alex Causer swapped his spanners for a steering wheel at Brands Hatch on March 19 and surprised himself by convincingly winning Equipe Classic Racing’s Libre and Pre-‘63/50s races in stalwart team supporter Sandy Watson’s latest Lotus Eleven Le Mans, managed by team chief…
Grand Prix de France Historique Focus on Formula Cars
One of the most highly anticipated race meetings of the season takes place in high summer in southern France. Set in a bowl in the hills above Bandol, the Paul Ricard circuit is now once again host to the French Grand Prix and also to the Historic Grand Prix, this…
FIA Historic Championships
After the upsets of COVID made it difficult for them to run International Championships for the last couple of years, Masters Historic Racing decided at the end of last year that it would continue to run its Formula 1 and Sports Cars as Internationaol Series again this season and they…
Velocity Invitational
Entries are now open for the second Velocity Invitational event at Laguna Seca, which will take place on 14-16 October, and organisers say they will close on 15 May. Last year competitors and press praised event founder Jeff O’Neill for his vision of selecting only the most original cars, adding…
Comas at Goodwood
The team presided over by Nick Sleep hosted Erik Comas for the Goodwood weekend, as the ex-F1 driver and historic rally enthusiast shared Sleep’s SDI Rover. “He was great company,” said one team member, “he drove Nick’s 1982 French production championship winning Marlboro Rover in the Gerry Marshall Trophy. Remarkably…
Johnny Herbert returns to the Australian Grand Prix
At the Australian Grand Prix Johnny Herbert returned to Formula 1, albeit driving a Williams FW07/04 in the Shannons Historic Demonstration. Now owned by Paul Faulkner, the Williams was listed as Jones’ world championship winning car. Duncan Mackellar follows in his Porsche 962C then Russ Kempnich’s Porsche 956 and Wayne…
Oil on the Track
At the recent Espíritu de Montjuïc race meeting at the Barcelona circuit, the end of the second rainy Copa Racer heat, saw one of the Minis blow its engine to leave a trail of oil that ran from turn 5 to turn 10 – so effectively the entire second section…
Bonhams Members’ Meeting Auction
Including post- sale arrangements, just five of the 76 cars offered at the Bonham’s auction at the Goodwood Members’ Meeting failed to sell, with nearly a quarter selling for over top estimate, some by a significant margin: a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 that had been off the road since 2018…
Formula One at FOS
Goodwood has confirmed that at least five current Formula 1 teams are already signed up to attend the Festival of Speed on 23-26 June. The teams will travel to Goodwood to run and display some of their most iconic race cars, giving Goodwood spectators a rare opportunity to see cars…
Biofuel
By adopting from 2022 a 100% renewable fuel for its F4 Championship, the FFSA, has made a commitment to the ecological transition. The French Championship thus becomes the very first single-seater competition in the world to use biofuel, starting from this season.
New Sponsor for Tony Dron Trophy
Lifeline, the industry-leading manufacturers of motorsport safety products, are the new headline sponsor for the Tony Dron Trophy, the popular and well-established series catering for Group 1 and 1½ Historic Touring Cars of the 1970s and early ‘80s run by Motor Racing Legends. Jim Morris, CEO of Lifeline, is a…
International St. Moritz Automobile Week
In what has become a full ten days of events and celebrations of the competition car, the German organising team has been adding more events to the St. Moritz Automobile Week. The Kilometre Lancé, or flying kilometre on the aerodrome, and the concours have been augmented with two tours, the…
Rally the Globe launches Alaska to Mexico Marathon for 2023
With the ongoing global pandemic, and political unrest in Myanmar hampering the advanced planning of events in South East Asia, the timetabled Road to Hanoi Marathon has been deferred until 2024 and replaced on 2023’s calendar with a journey through some of the most spectacular scenery in North America. Crossing…
Flying Scotsman
Bentley specialist William Medcalf has won the challenging Flying Scotsman rally after leading the three-day (1-3 April) event for pre-war cars from day one in his Bentley SuperSports. Rain, snow and a hailstorm that blew across Scotland on day two assaulted the drivers, most in open cockpits, leaving just 79…
Circuit of Ireland
Preston’s James Ford won the two-day Circuit of Ireland Historic category on his trip across the Irish Sea. The Ford Escort, navigated by Neil Shanks, led from start to finish over the mixed conditions. Far from the Circuit of old when teams travelled across the island, a simple format of…
Rallying for the Next Generation
Staged in brilliant early spring sunshine on 25-27 March, Rally the Globe’s first-ever Generations Rally, centred in the poetic English Lake District National Park, was a great success on many counts. Created specifically to introduce potential future endurance rally competitors – notably those of a younger age – to historic…
Gravel Romania Historic Rally
The 3rd Gravel Romania Historic Rally, which will take place on 5-9 July, will consist of a route spread over five days with 25 special stages totalling 380km of timed stages, held on 100% Gravel. HTPs not required. Contact Paul Lacombe and his team via the website at www.romania-historic-rally.com.
Stella Alpina 2022
Entries are now open for the 37th edition of the Stella Alpina, the event organised jointly by Scuderia Trentina and Canossa Events that will take place on 3-5 June. After the great success of the 2021 edition, the Stella Alpina is once again taking to the spectacular roads of…